Measurements of the correlation between electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays and light hadrons with ALICE at the LHC

Abstract

In relativistic heavy-ion physics two-particle correlations provide a very useful tool to investigate the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). This observable is sensitive to several of the properties of the QGP such as resonances, interaction of partons with the medium and collective effects (e. g. elliptic flow). In the present work, the correlation function between electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays and light hadrons was measured in pp and Pb-Pb collisions (central and semi-central). Furthermore, in pp collisions the relative beauty contribution to the total cross section of electrons from heavy-flavour decays was estimated by comparing the measured correlation with Monte-Carlo templates.